- A special issue from Science Magazine on The science of inequality
- How much does it cost to study in an Ivy League university?
- Meet the Robin Hood of Science and download any academic paper for free at Sci-Hub
- Beautiful photographic work on China's Ghost Cities
- Student hacks Raspberry Pi to run college bar at Oxford (ht Jakob Engel). The piece is from 2013, but I've heard the system is still working fine.
- How cold can Chicago get?
- A map of NYC street trees by species
- 3 years later, Syrian refugee camp booms into makeshift city
- A fairly detailed map of commuting trips in UK cities, by Oliver O’Brien